Author: robert.marchant

This week has marked the first anniversary of Jeremy Corbyn’s arrival as Labour leader. The week has been full of the now-customary gaffes and blunders, yes. But a more disturbing revelation was that about the obsession with “Zionism” at the heart of the Corbyn “kitchen cabinet”. If one were to try and characterise the notable… Continue reading In just one year, Jeremy Corbyn has alienated Britain’s Jews

I realise I have come rather late to this, but yesterday came across this fantastic, withering piece from last September by Steve Moore of Volte Face magazine. Having tweeted it and seen a lot of interest, I thought it would be good to link here as well. It essentially gives the lie to Corbyn’s and McDonnell’s… Continue reading Corbyn and McDonnell: the men who wanted the IRA to win

The original Labour splitters, 1981 The ballot papers have arrived. On past form for such elections, most voting tends to happen in the first week and the die is almost certainly already cast for one side or the other. And if yesterday’s YouGov poll is to be believed, there will be a second, convincing win… Continue reading A Labour split is surely now on the cards

So much has been made of Jeremy Corbyn’s honesty and freshness, that it is high time for us to probe it. After ten months of “straight talking, honest politics”, this weekend’s long and detailed Observer interview turned out to be rather insightful. 1.             “People should have the right to take… Continue reading Corbyn’s “straight talking, honest politics” mask finally slipped in the Observer interview

Just to note, after many earlier posts on the subject, that trouble is brewing again in the Ukraine. I have long predicted that Vladimir Putin would most likely want to finish the job of invading the country while Obama was still in office, knowing that the likely consequences would be zero, whereas under either the next… Continue reading Free Ukraine. Last chance to see?

I wrote this for Labour Uncut on Wednesday night, about the leadership election. It’s, well, from the heart. Dear Labour member, You probably think this is like so many emails you get from the party nowadays. But it is not. This is a letter to you from someone who loves the party and sees it in… Continue reading A brutally honest letter to Labour members

After the earthquake, it is surely time to stand back a little and take stock. After one of the most extraordinary months ever in British politics, the pieces have been thoroughly shaken and are now returned to earth. The landscape is entirely different from the seeming certainties of just a month ago, the old guard… Continue reading Labour at the crossroads

Now, the Centre Left has been a little preoccupied over recent months with the slow collapse of the Labour Party as we know it. But world events now still seem to be competing to reach the same level of insanity.Aside from the horrific attacks in Nice, where families celebrating Bastille day were butchered by an… Continue reading Turkey: the bus reaches its destination

“The Labour Party is facing its most serious crisis in its century-long history,” writes Eric Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling. He’s not wrong. First of all, since my last Uncut column, it is no exaggeration to say that British politics has been turned upside down by the win of Leave in… Continue reading Labour is in meltdown

Wrote this yesterday for Progress Online, on the outcome of Chilcot: it seems, sadly, that Britain will be much less likely in future to intervene on humanitarian grounds. As we did in Kosovo, and saved thousands of lives.  Syria (and, worse: Rwanda, where the international community stood by and the death toll was in millions)… Continue reading Will Britain ever intervene again?